History, Empathy and Conflict Heroes, Victims and Victimisers /

• Main Author: Towle, Philip (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: History-Philosophy.; World politics.; Historiography.; Diplomacy.; History, Modern.; Philosophy of History.; Political History.; Memory Studies.; Modern History.

This book argues that popular culture has been transformed in a silent revolution from emphasising history's heroes to its victims. While city squares and stations were named in the nineteenth century after military victories, now the equivalent airports are named after the victims of violence....